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The Names of 425,000 Individuals Who Collaborated With the Germans in World War II Have Been Released
['Clare Fitzgerald']
WAR HISTORY ONLINE
For the first time, the names of 425,000 individuals who collaborated with the Germans during the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II have been made available online. The newly-digitized documents, consisting of 32 million pages, are held by the Dutch National Archives and reveal that, of the 425,000 names listed, only around 150,000 were punished for their collaboration. The decision to publish them to the internet has drawn criticism from both the families of the accused, as well as the descendants of victims, with The Telegraph reporting that there were concerns that the documents could “reignite old tensions and stigmatise individuals linked to the dark history of Dutch collaboration.”